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Traismauer - Lower Austria

Traismauer,
a municipality in Lower Austria, lies 15 km south-east of Krems in
the Wachau.

After the decline of the Roman culture, the
changeful history of the migration period began. In Traismauer, the
complete gate of a small Roman fort is still conserved. The roof
structures were complemented in Gothic style.

The castle,
built on the ruins of the fort, housed until autumn 2006 a branch of
the Museum of Prehistory of Lower Austria with remnants of the Celts,
Quadi, Marcomanni, Vandals, Germans, Goths, Huns, Lombards, Avars and
Slavs who all left their traces here.

The area was never
depopulated by an onrushing horde, it always came to mixture of
ethnic groups. This varied history perhaps explains the casual humane
mentality of the Austrians.

As of the middle of the 6th
Century, the Bavarians from the House of Agilolfing, took over the
power in the northern Alpine region until they were annexed by
Charlemagne as a tribal duchy into a Carolingian Frankish Empire.
From the year 907 until the Battle of Lechfeld in 955, the Magyars
dominated this region. In 996, the name Ostarrîchi (the old High
German word for Austria) was first time mentions for an area at
Neuhofen at the Ybbs.

The pieces shown should now be
exhibited in the Museum of Prehistory in Asparn Zaya, a town in the
district of Mistelbach in Lower Austria.